[e23-announce] I Get Knocked Down

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    e23 News for August 26, 2011: I Get Knocked Down	
    

[image: http://e23.sjgames.com/media/SJG30-3308.jpg ]   The title of this one scared the heck out of me when it first came out. "But Malakim can't fall! It's axiomatic! This is the END TIMES!" In short, my response was very much like that of the angelic superiors in In Nomine: Fall of the Malakim ( http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG30-3308 ) . I'm not sure if this actually says anything good about me. Whether the Malakite in this story actually falls and how such an apocalyptic thing happens is, obviously, not something I can tell you. The whole purpose of this adventure is to give the players that sort of confusion.

That's one of the things I really love about Fall of the Malakim. It's an adventure where the end goal is not "go kill this dude" or "go retrieve this thing," but "find out what the Hell happened" -- quite literally. The players are likely to be as confused as their superiors, even if they do find out what happened, and proving the truth is likely to be as difficult as finding, it if not more so! The book is filled with a great deal of backstory, character development, motivation, and NPCs with their own agendas all across the board. Most of all, it's a great example of Hellish plots and politics that can, if nothing else, inspire other plots from the GMs who read it.


-- Samantha Smith
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